About Filed Wages

What Filed Wages is

Filed Wages turns the Department of Labor's public Labor Condition Application disclosure data into readable pages: the wages employers stated for H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 roles, by employer, by occupation and metro area and by state, each placed beside the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS wage for the same job and area. It exists so that someone weighing an offer or researching an employer can see what the public record says, with the caveats attached.

Who runs it

Filed Wages is built and run by Aidan Jones, a Biology B.S. student at TCU and a software and data engineer who has built government data pipelines. The pipeline that reads the government files, filters them, computes the percentiles and builds every page is written and maintained by one person. The site is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Department of Labor, the Bureau of Labor Statistics or the Census Bureau.

What we publish and what we do not

• We publish percentiles for groups of at least 5 filings, never individual filings and never names of workers.
• We publish guides that explain the data and its limits, each with its sources and the date it was checked.
• We do not give legal or immigration advice. Pages that touch legal rules say so and point to primary sources.
• We do not sell placement in the rankings or the pages. Where a page links to a paid product or an affiliate, it is marked.

How the pages are made

Every number on a data page is computed by code from the federal files and rendered into a page. The text beside the numbers is also generated from the same figures, for example the spread of an employer's wages or how its median compares with the BLS median for its top job. Pages whose data is thin, meaning fewer than 30 filings, are still reachable but are kept out of search engine indexes. The full procedure is on the methodology page.

How the site is paid for

The data pages are free. Funding comes from optional paid products, such as the employer wage dataset and the Wage Data API, and may later come from advertising. If ads are switched on, they will be labelled, and the privacy page will describe them before they load. Advertising never changes the numbers or the order of any table.

Corrections

If a number looks wrong, compare it with the source file named on the page and tell us through the contact page. Errors are fixed by rebuilding from the source files, and material changes to a guide are dated on the page.